1 Corinthians 12

What is Church?

What is Church?

Dave Riddle - 6/09/2024

Key Passages: Acts 2:42-44, 2 Corinthians 8:1-5

“There is no relationship with God apart from His family”

Consumerism is about:

- satisfaction

- Entitlement

- More for me

- Obsession

- Devouring

- We think WE are doing the devouring, but instead IT devours us.

Community is about:

- being on mission

- Responsibility

- Serving others

- Freedom

- Creating

Partnership

- God desires for you to be an active partner, not a passive observer.

- 2 Corinthians 8:23

- Philippians 1:4-5

- Hebrews 10:33

- Philemon 17

- Acts 2:42-44

- koinos: “All things in common” = common; shared by all our several

- koinonos: associate, comrade, companion, sharer, partner

- koinonia: fellowship, association, joint participation, communion, community, the state one has in something, partnership

The mindset of partnership

- 2 Corinthians 8:1-5

- melos: being a living part of an interconnected body/dynamic body.

- Romans 12 & 1 Corinthians 12

- a partner is someone who is engaged with the organization’s mission

What is our focus?

- Privilege or responsibility?

- Get or give?

- Passive or active involvement?

How?

- Philippians 2:3-5

- Love, unity, humility, a common mission…

- A family on mission

Calling All Calvary - The Universal Calling

Calling All Calvary - The Universal Calling

Dave Riddle - 7/16/2023

Key Passage: 1 Corinthians 12

We are the body of Christ

Spiritual Body

Unity (one) + Diversity (many)

  • 1 Corinthians 12:27

  • We are more than the sum of our parts.

    • Multiplication not addition

You are one

1 Corinthians 12:12-13

We are many

1 Corinthians 12:19-20

Functionality

Romans 12:4-8

  • One body… but we don’t all have the same function

    • We have been given different gifts

    • When we don’t live into those gifts we compromise the functionality of the body

Interconnectedness

1 Corinthians 12:15-16

  • We are connected and interlocked together.

  • We need each other.

  • We need community.

Interdependence 

1 Corinthians 12:17-18, 21

  • We need each other and we need our differences.

Constructed by God

1 Corinthians 12:24-25

  • God has out the body together

  • …so that there would be no division in the body

United In Love

1 Corinthians 12:31

  • And l I will show you an even better way

    • LOVE • 1 Corinthians 13

      • Romans 12:9-10

  • When one suffers, we all suffer. When one is honored, we all rejoice • 1 Corinthians 12:26

  • Philippians 2:4

  • James 2:15-16

  • John 13:35

Life in the Spirit

House Rules - Holy Spirit

Dave Riddle - 10/16/2022

Key Passage:  John 14:16-17

Life in the Spirit

  • walking in the power and leadership of the Holy Spirit, while bearing spiritual fruit and utilizing spiritual gifts.

A Promise Fulfilled

  • John 14:16-17

    • We need help!

  • John 16:7

    • Jesus was leaving, but He didn’t leave us without help!

    • Helper = paraklētos - summoned, called to one's side, esp. called to one's aid. One who pleads another's cause before a judge, a pleader, counsel for defense, legal assistant, an advocate. One who pleads another's cause with one, an intercessor. In the widest sense, a helper, aider, assistant

Friendship

  • Holy Spirit “…is the loving, self-communicating, out-fanning and out-pouring presence of the eternal divine life of the triune God. By the Spirit, God draws near to the creature and mediates a knowledge of divinity in a hundred thousand ways.” - Jürgen Moltmann

Conviction

  • John 16:8-9

    • We are completely dependent on the Holy Spirit bearing fruit in our gospel work and in our lives.

New Life

  • Acts 2:37-38

  • John 3:5-6

  • John 6:63a

Empowered Life

  • Acts 1:8

  • 2 Timothy 1:7

    • Power = dynamis (Greek: δύναμις) strength, ability of power, especially inherent power, residing in something (or someone) by virtue of its (or their) nature.

  • Galatians 5:16

Changed (Fruitful) Life

  • Galatians 5:22-23

  • Galatians 5:25 - If we live by the spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit

    • Keep in step = stoicheo (Greek: στοιχέω) -literally, to march in military rank; to proceed in a row as the march of a soldier. Figuratively, to conform (in virtue, piety)

Gifted Life

  • 1 Corinthians 12:4-7

    • We are strengthened by each other’s gifts.

  • 1 Corinthians 12:12

Directed Life

  • John 16:3

  • 1 Corinthians 2:14

Eternal Life

  • Ephesians 1:13-14

  • Ephesians 4:30

United Life

  • 1 Corinthians 12:13

  • koinōnia (Greek: κοινωνία) - fellowship, association, community, intimacy, joint participation (the share which one has in anything), communion.

Unchanging Love

Unchanging Love

Dave Riddle 9/05/2021

Key passage: 1 Corinthians 13

The Highest Way of All - Love

  • 1 Corinthians. 12:31 - Love!

… is Lonnnnnnnng-tempered 

  • Patient - 1 Corinthians 12:4

…is Kind

  • 1 Corinthians 12:4

  • 1 John 3

…Does Not Boil Over with Jealousy 

  • 1 Corinthians 12:4

…is not Boastful

  • 1 Corinthians 12:4

  • This word is only used one time

…is not self-inflated

  • psysioo- literally, to inflate, blow up, to cause to swell up.

  • 1 Corinthians 12:4

…is not crude or inappropriate 

  • 1 Corinthians 12:5

  • Lacking in care for others around them

…isn’t self-centered

  • 1 Corinthians 12:5

  • “Cure selfishness and you have just replanted the Garden of Eden” - RCH Lenski

…Isn’t moved to anger

  • 1 Corinthians 12:5

  • Of our interactions are defined by rage, we aren’t living in love.

    • Irascible - not just angry but anger that leads to wrong action.

…doesn’t keep score

  • loguzomai- to take inventory, an ancient bookkeeping term that means to calculate or reckon. To make it keep a permanent record.

  • 1 Corinthians 12:5

…Responds Correctly to  Truth and Iniquity

  • 1 Corinthians 12:6

  • Love doesn’t find joy in unrighteousness or the failures of others.

…Persists

  • 1 Corinthians 7-8a

  • “Bears all things” - covers, supports, protects.